Tropical Storm Lala passed near Hawaii's Big Island, striking with typhoon-level intensity and bringing snowfall to the summit of Mauna Kea.
17 August 2026
The annual U.S.-Bangladesh joint military exercise 'Tiger Lightning 2026,' involving U.S. troops and Bangladesh's Para Commando Brigade, concluded in Bangladesh in late July.
17 August 2026
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, whose field of view is 100 times wider than Hubble's, will launch aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket on August 30…
17 August 2026
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk from the International Space Station on August 18 to replace a communications antenna, becoming the first French woman…
17 August 2026
NASA's Juno spacecraft has made the first-ever measurement of underground temperatures on Io, the solar system's most volcanically active moon.
17 August 2026
NASA's Perseverance rover captured Earth disappearing behind Mars' moon Phobos on July 2 — the first time such an event has been recorded from the surface…
17 August 2026
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning. At least 47 people have died.
17 August 2026
Wildfires that broke out across Spain and France in July became the largest and most disruptive in decades, with NASA's Landsat 9 satellite capturing the burning…
17 August 2026
